List of Old Gowers

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This is a List of Notable Old Gowers - former pupils of University College School.
See also Category:Old Gowers.

Contents

[edit] A

  • The Very Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler (OG 1852-54), Chief Rabbi of UK
  • The Rev. Canon Ainger, Alfred Ainger (OG 1847-49), Master of the Temple

[edit] B

  • Major General MP Babbage (OG 1834-40).
  • The Most Rev. E.G. Bagshawe (OG 1836-38), Archbishop of Selucia. Might have been Edward Gilpin Bagshawe in which case he was also RC Bishop of Nottingham.
  • Commander William Eric Banks C.B.E. (OG ?-?) (Commander of H.M.S. Firedrake).
  • Professor Dennis Neville Baron (OG 1936-41).
  • Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Barnes (OG 1911-14).
  • John Barrett (tennis), BBC tennis commentator, "voice of tennis" since 1991, previously had competed at Wimbledon and represented Britain in the Davis Cup.
  • Sir G.C.T. Bartley (OG 1852-59), MP
  • Professor Henry Bassett DSc, PhD, D ès Sc (OG 1892-98), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Reading from 1912-46.
  • Tony Bastable, (OG 1955-?) former ITV presenter and independent producer.
  • Victor Bayley CIE, CBE. FICE (OG 1891-98). Railway Engineer - Constructor of railway through the Khyber.
  • George Arthur Beggs (Og 1893-1901).
  • Robert Anning Bell RA (OG 1876-78), painter and illustrator
  • Hymen William Benjamin (OG ?-?)
  • Dr G.T. Bennett, anthropologist.
  • John Hamilton Betts (OG 1903?)
  • Eric Latham Beverly (OG 1928-36) Chairman of Council (1979-1980), CBE, D.F.C., F.R.A.e. S.
  • Louis Bielinky (OG 1931-40).
  • Raymond William Birch C.B.E. (OG 1913-19).
  • Major General Horace Leslie Birks CB DSO (OG 1912-14).
  • CC Bishop (OG 1917-22), Rugby player for England.
  • Dion Boucicault (OG ?-?) Irish author and playwright. Helped to get the first dramatic US copyright law passed in 1856, and was involved in the setting up of the UK royalty system. The Templeman Library.
  • H. Clarence Bourne CMG (OG 1872-75), Colonial Secretary of Jamaica
  • Robert Lawrence Bowes, Wing Commander (OG ?-?)
  • Major David Charles Bowser - film maker? (OG 1913-16).
  • Major General Sir J Rose Bradford KCMG, CB, FRS, MD (OG 1875-80) Possibly Sir John Rose Bradford, Bart.– If so, President of the Royal College of Physicians
  • Professor Paul Brand CBE, (OG ?-?) orthopaedic surgeon who helped thousands of sufferers of leprosy. Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Washington, international president of the Leprosy Mission, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons.
  • Elmore W. Brewerton FRCS, (OG 1882-6).
  • Oscar Frank Brown C.B.E. (OG 1897-06)
  • Sir George Buchanan CB MD FRCP (OG 1878-85), Chief Medical Officer for England, 1879 - 1892.
  • Herrick Bunney, organist, Professor of the Organ at the Royal College of Music 1967-76. Made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1996. Awards included the Dannreuther Prize for a performance of the Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto under Sir Malcolm Sargent.
  • Professor Benedict Delisle Burns (OG 1922-31), author of The Mammalian Cerebral Cortex.

[edit] C

  • Henry Clifford Care, CB (order of the bath), cricket blue 1911, Cambridge University Chess Blue, Government Finance Minister..
  • Dan Chambers (OG 1985-87), TV producer and former director of programmes for Channel Five
  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Charles,PC, (OG 1848-54), Judge of the High Court
  • Sir William Christie (astronomer)?, Astronomer Royal in 1881-1910. Biographical details don't seem to mention his education below university level, but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation, he may well be an Old Gower.
  • Sir JRA Clark (Bart?) (OG ?-?) FRCS CB CMG
  • Sir Wilfred Collett KCMG (OG 1870-73), Governor of British Guiana 1914-1918
  • C.H.J. O'Neill Conroy KC, OBE (OG 1886-88), Attorney-General for Newfoundland.
  • Lord? W.H. Cozens-Hardy KC, (OG ?-?) Commander of the RNR in World War One

[edit] D

  • The Hon Sir Lionel Davidson (Politician) KCSI (OG 1877-84), Leader of the House, Madras Legislative Council, Vice-President of Executive Council of Governor of Madras.
  • Sir Michael Day OBE (OG 1946-52), Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
  • Paul Jose De Mayo F.R.S. (OG ?-?)
  • William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849-55) Artist/potter and novelist
  • Hugh Dennis, (OG ?-?) Actor (My Hero, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week)
  • Julian Diggle (OG ?-?) Percussionist
  • Jonathan Djanogly, MP (2001-present) Shadow Solicitor General and Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry (2005-)
  • H John Dunster (OG ?-?) UK representative to the UNSCEAR (atomic Radiation), Director of NRPB (National Radiological Safety Board), Deputy Director General of the Health and Safety Executive.
  • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bart. (OG 1847-52), Professor at University College London. There is to this day a Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at UCL, and the main hall at UCS is officially known as the Durning-Lawrence Hall.

[edit] E

  • W. McAdam Eccles MS FRCS (OG 1882-84), surgeon.
  • Richard Eckersley, deconstructionist graphic designer, appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1999.
  • Sir Barrow Ellis KCSI,(OG 1883-37), Member of Governor-General's Council and of the Council of India

[edit] F

  • Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart. (OG 1853-55), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97
  • Shayne Fontayne (OG ?-?) Guitarist.
  • Sir Michael Foster KCB, FRS, MP (OG 1849-52), Physiologist, Professor and MP
  • The Hon Sir T. Gregory Foster Bart, Ph.D (OG 1881-4), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, the first Provost of University College London.
  • Daniel Franklin (OG ?-?) Journalist and editor.
  • Josh Franklin (OG 2001-2008) Professional footballer
  • Maj.-Gen Sir T. Fraser KCB, CSI, CMG (OG 1876-82)
  • Professor Percy Furnivall FRCS (OG 1878-83), Hunterian Professor of Pathology and surgery, Royal College of Surgeons. Champion Bicyclist of the World 1885.

[edit] G

  • Samuel Gee (1839 – 1911) Physician and paediatrician
  • Air Vice-Marshall Leonard William George Gill (Bill Gill) (OG 1932-35), Order of the King of Bohemia, British Air force officer.
  • Paul Gilroy, (OG ?-?) Giddens Professor at the London School of Economics & writer.
  • God (OG ?-?) Prominent Deity.
  • Sir Alan Greengross, (OG ?-?) Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council, Vice-Chair of the Council of University College London.
  • J.G. Greenwood, (OG 1835-37) Principal of Owens College, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK) and possibly founded it
  • Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (OG 1872-76), Artist

[edit] H

  • Laurence Halsted (OG 1984- ), British Fencer
  • H. W. Halton (OG 1877-80), Vice-President Court of Appeal, President Mixed Tribunal, Cairo
  • Numa E. Hartog (OG 1857-61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities. His evidence before a committee of the House of Lords helped considerably to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871.
  • His Excellency Viscount Hayashi (OG 1867-68), Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
  • Sir Harry Haward (OG 1877-81), Controller of the L.C.C., Electricity Commissioner
  • Professor Clive Hawood (OG 1897-03).
  • Sir John Heathcote-Amory, Bart (of Tiverton)(OG 1843-45), Textile Baron, builder of Knightshayes Court
  • Dr Bernard W. Henderson (OG 1883-89), fellow of Exeter College, Cambridge, classical historian.
  • Dr Alexander Hill MA, MD, FRCS (OG 1870-72), Master of Downing College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1897-99).
  • Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, KCB, KCMG, CVO, FRCS, (OG 1871-81), Director-General of the Admiralty Medical Department, Hon. Surgeon to H.M. the King
  • Sir Malcolm Hilbery, Judge.
  • Jeremy Hillman, (OG ?-?) Editor of BBC world, previously BBC New York Bureau Chief.
  • Mayer Hillman, (OG ?-?) Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute. Author.
  • The Rt. Rev. J.E. Hine DD, MD (OG 1870-74), Bishop of Zanzibar, Archdeacon of Lincoln
  • Professor Peter Holland, (OG ?-?), former Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. Then in 2002, Peter became the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
  • Nigel Holloway (OG ?-?)
  • Sir Henry Greenway Howse MS, FRCS (OG 1856-58), President of the Royal College of Surgeons
  • Major General Hutchinson (OG 1839-41), probably Charles Scrope Hutchinson, Inspector of Railways for the board of trade.

[edit] I

  • Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873-74), Lord Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary (briefly), Leader of the House of Lords, solicitor and attorney general (held separately), Ambassador to the USA, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India.

[edit] J

  • Professor Anthony Trafford James, CBE FRS, Non-Executive Director of the Wellcome Trust, honoured for services to UK research, involved with the development of gas-liquid chromatography.
  • Stephen Joseph OBE, Executive Director of Transport 2000 (OG 1988-2005?).

[edit] K

  • Sir Brian Keith QC, (OG ?-?) Justice of the High Court.
  • Dairoku Kikuchi, (OG ?-?) Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education
  • Dr Geoffrey Klempner, (OG ?-?) Philosopher, Director of Studies, International Society for philosophers, author of books.
  • G.W. Knox (OG 1856-59), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

[edit] L

  • Adam Law, (OG 1970-1975) physician/scientist.
  • Dennis Lloyd (OG 1929-31, Chairman of Council 1971-79), The rt. Hon Lord Lloyd of Hampstead QC, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence University of London, Chairman of the National Film School 1970-1988, chairman of the British Film Institute 1973-1976.
  • Simon Long (OG ?-?) Journalist

[edit] M

  • Sir Philip Magnus, Bart., (OG 1854-58), English educationalist (first Director of the City and Guilds Institute) and MP
  • H.J. Manning
  • Sir Edward Manville M.Inst. E.E., (OG 1874-78), Chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce
  • The Rt. Rev Dr. John Howard Bertram Masterman DD, (OG ?-?) Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author.
  • John Preston Maxwell, (OG ?-?) Missionary, President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
  • Justin H. McCarthy MP (OG 1871-73), Member of Parliament and author and possibly son of Justin McCarthy
  • Sir Andrew McFadyean, (OG ?-?) senior civil servant, General Secretary to the Reparation Commission 1919, Chairman of S.G. Warburg and Co, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  • The Rt. Hon. J.W. Mellor KC, MP (OG 1844-51), Chairman of Committees, House of Commons
  • Sir W.S. Meyer GCIE, KCSI. (OG 1873-76), Member of the Governor-General's Council, First High Commissioner for India
  • Dharmash Mistry (OG ?-1988), Managing Director of Emap Digital
  • SirE.W. Moir Bart. (OG 1875-77), Engineer
  • Sir Theodore Morison KCSI, KCI.E., CBE. (OG 1874-77), Member of the Council of India, Principal of Armstrong College
  • The Rev William Stainton Moses, (OG ?-?) Christian Spiritualist Leader and medium, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance (1884-death).
  • Rodrigo Moynihan, Artist.

[edit] N

  • Sir Nathaniel Nathan (OG 1851-58), Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1901-1903
  • Sir W. Phené Neal (OG 1876-80), Lord Mayor of London 1930-31

[edit] O

[edit] P

  • Professor Karl Pearson FRS (OG 1866-73), Founder of Department of Applied Statistics of University College London which was the first statistics department in the world. He was a major contributor to the development of statistics. Contemporary and close friend of Kikuchi Dairoku.
  • Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, Mathematician, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford. Winner of De Morgan Medal (See Notable Staff for De Morgan himself). Sir Roger has the honour of holding a Chair and medal named after two different people involved with the school (a pupil and a teacher). Author of popular physics books.
  • Professor Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet, literary critic and historian. He appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) at the Lady Chatterly's Lover trial.
  • Dan Plesch, writer, broadcaster & senior associate of the Foreign Policy Centre
  • Augustus Pulszky LL.D (OG 1858-60), Professor of Law, University of Buda-Pesth

[edit] Q

  • Professor J.P. Quilliam, Peter Quilliam, General Secretary of the British Pharmacology Society (1968-71), Professor of Pharmacology King's College London, Chairman of the BMA Board of Science, Trustee of the University of London.

[edit] R

  • Alec. L. Rea (OG 1887-94), Dramatic Producer.
  • Sir Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857-61), Prominent chemist and petroleum expert, co-founded the B & R Redwood consulting practice. He also co-founded, and became the first President of, the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, now known as the Institute of Petroleum, in 1913. He was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to change from coal fired ships to oil fired ones.
  • Sir Josiah Rees, (OG 1835-38), Chief Justice of Bermuda
  • Sir Aurelian Ridsdale, politician and chairman of the British Red Cross Society, 1912–1914
  • Leo Robson, Noted Hegelian academic and former editor of the Warwick Boar.
  • William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly, (OG 1843-50), He may have had something to do with the 1867 Reform Act.
  • James Rosenfeld, Noted Academic and Philanthropist
  • Henry Ling Roth (1855 – 1925), Anthropologist, active in Australia (brother of Walter Roth)
  • Sir C.A. Russell QC, (OG 1862-71), was probably Charles Russell QC who defended at least one of the three social campaigners in the famous case of Eliza Armstrong (1885): social campaigners proved the existence of under age prostitution by "buying a girl", they were then prosecuted.

[edit] S

  • Lt.-General Sir Robert I. Scallon KCB, KCI.E., DSO (OG 1869-73)
  • Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bart., KCB. (OG 1865-66), Often regarded in the Royal Navy as "the father of modern gunnery". Scott was also instrumental in developing other equipment for the fleet such as the masthead flashing lamp (and possibly the masthead semaphore) and the shutter "for the emission of signs" to put on the searchlights so they could be used to send Morse Code. He was Military Commandant of Durban when martial law was declared during the Boer War. In a controversial letter to The Times he foresaw the vulnerability of battleships to new technology such as submarines. He was made Head of the anti-submarine department of the Admiralty months into the First World War. He is one of three Naval officers who (working independently) are credited with the development of depth charges. [1], [2], [3]
  • Sir Francis Michie Shepherd KBE, British Ambassador to Persia 1950-52, Ambassador to Poland 1952-54.
  • Major General T.H. Sibley (1834-41).
  • The Hon Sir Percy Simmons KBE (OG1885-90), Chairman of L.C.C.
  • Lieutenant General Eric Miall Smith, exact details unknown, Killed in the first world war.
  • Professor Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, Litt. D. (OG 1867-68), Philologist, Professor of Classics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Birmingham
  • Marion Harry Spielmann (OG 1872-66), Historian of Punch, editor of The Magazine of Art.
  • Major General Henry H Stansfield. (OG ?-?)
  • The Rt. Rev. Edward Steere (OG 1842-44), Bishop of Central Africa.
  • Colonel H.F. Stephens (OG 1877-83), Railway engineer and manager.
  • Greville Stevens, England Cricketer, Ashes winner, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, at UCS scored 466 in a house match.
  • Manfred John Susskind. Fred Susskind (OG 1902-09), South African test match cricketer.
  • The Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848-50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada
  • Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, sometimes spelled Ernst Dunlop Swinton KBE, CB, DSO (OG 1878-83), On outbreak of World War One became, Assistant Secretary (Military), Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet. Directed the creation of the first successful Tank in 1916, (he is sometimes referred to as the "originator" of the tank (see Landships Committee), later Chichele Professor of Military History, University of Oxford.

[edit] T

  • Matthew Taylor (politician), MP (1987-present), Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman (1999-2003), Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party (2003-2005)
  • Captain Norman Todd - Captained the first commercial flight of a British Airways concorde.
  • Professor William Bradshaw Tuck, Professor (Chemistry) Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1937).
  • Raymond Turk (OG 1946-56), novelist, poet and dramatist.

[edit] U

  • The Hon Sir Thomas Urwick (OG 1877-84), British Member of the Reparations Commission, Paris.

[edit] V

  • Geoffrey Vos QC, Chairman of the Bar Council

[edit] W

  • Professor O. K. Williamson MA, MB (OG 1876-82), University of Witwatersrand
  • Jonathan Wittenberg, Masorti Rabbi
  • Clive A Woolf OBE, (OG 1943-46) Solicitor honoured for representing death row inmates in Caribbean (pro bono) on their appeals to the Privy Council.

[edit] X

[edit] Y

  • Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., FRS (OG 1855-58), Ship building industrialist and philanthropist

[edit] Z

[edit] References

  1. ^ Admiral Sir Percy Scott
  2. ^ Johnson
  3. ^ ::The Admiralty and the Submarine Service::
  4. ^ British Society for the History of Mathematics